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Patented Sept; 26, |899.A

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SEBASTIAN OBERMEYER, OFPITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

BRICK-'MAKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,891, dated September 26, 1899.

Application filed J une 6, 1899. Serial No. 719,575. (No model.)

To all whom item/ay concern:

Be it known that I, SEBASTIAN OBERMEYER,

' will stamp the clay in a mold in a uniform manner, and, furthermore, one that may heV easily regulated and adjusted to stamp the different layers as they are being placed in the mold.

The invention further aimsV to construct an apparatus that will stamp the clay in a uniform manner and also to provide means that will admit the plunger to travel over the entire surface of the clay and stamp the same in a uniform manner throughout.

A still further object of my invention is to construct a machine 'of the above-referred-to class that will be extremely simple in its construction, strong, durable, and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture, and, furthermore, one that will be highly eiiicient in its operation. i p

With the above and other objects in view the invention finally consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described,

and specifically pointed out in the claim.

In describing the invention in detail reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and'wherein like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved machine, showing in dotted lines the position of the various parts when in operation; Fig. 2 is a top plan View of the mold and carrier. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the mechanism operating the plunger, in side elevation, partly in section. Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional View taken on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5

is a similar view taken on the line 5 5 of Fig, l.

Referring to the drawings by refe rence-numerals, l indicates a rigid cross-beam of the frame. To this cross-beam is bolted a support 2, through which' extends a shaft 3, carrying a disk 4 and' having pivotally secured thereto at 15 a pitman-rod 6, the lower end of the said pitman-rod being pivotally connected at 7 to the chamfered end S of the frame 9,

the said frame 9 carrying on its sides guides 10, adapted to operate in the guideways 11, which areV secured to the face of the support 2. Guideways 11 are formed in the inner face of the said frame 9, which are adapted to receive guides 12 of the follower 13, said follower having secured thereto a plunger 14, ycarrying on its lower extremity a head 15.

15' indicates a cross-brace which is suitably secured to the lower portion of the frame 9 and acts as a bearing for the lower end of the screw-threaded adjusting-rods 16, which are mounted in -the frame and extend through the follower 13, said adjusting-rods carrying vcog-wheels 17, which are adapted to mesh with an idler 18, said idler carrying a beveled face 19, the latter meshing with a cog-Wheel 20, said cog-wheel 20 being secu red in a shaft 21, which is adapted to .receive the operatinglever.

The"reference-numeral 2 2 represents the rails, upon which is mounted a truck 23, this truck carrying rails 24, transversely arranged tothe rails 22, said rails being adapted to receive acarrier or truck 25, upon which is arranged a mold 26, which is partly broken away at one side kin Fig. 1 to show the clay therein and the'plunger-head 15. i

VThe operation of my improved brickmaking-machine is as follows: Motion is imparted to the shaft 'through the means of a driven pulley which rotates the disk 4 and operates the pitnian-rod 6 and reciprocates the frame 9, carrying the plunger 14, stamping the clay into the mold to the desired level, the trucks 23 and 25 being moved as the plunger 14 op-V crates upon the clay, thus forming a solid layer within the mold. When the next layer is placed within the mold, the cog-wheel 2O is operated, imparting motion to the cogwheel 17, turning the screw-threaded rod 16 and raising; the follower 13, carryingthe plunger 14, thus limiting the downward stroke of the plunger to the desired level of the second layer of clay. This operation is repeated until the mold is filled. Y It is then removed and dried in the usual manner.

Y From the foregoing description Will be apparent the many advantages that my improved machine possesses, and a further description of the sameis deemed unnecessary. It will be noted that various changes may be made in the details of construction of my improved machine without departing from the gei'leral spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, v

what I elaini as neu/,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a brick-machine, the combination of a support, a shaft suitably arranged therein, a disk mounted on one end of the said shaft, a pitman-rod connected thereto, a frame connected to the said rod, an elongated guide seesel cured at each side of the said support for the said frame, guideways arranged in the said frame, a follower, guides secured to the said follower and operating in said guideways, a plunger operating in the said frame and secured to the said follower, `a cross-brace secured to the lower endro'f said frame, screw'- threaded adjusting-rods operatingv through the said follower bearing at their lower end upon the said cross-brace, a cog-wheel carried on the upper end of each of the said adjusting-rods, an idler supported from the said frame and adapted to mesh with the said cogwheels,V and means for operating the said idler, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

SEBASTIAN oBERMEYEa W'itnesses:

JOHN NOLAND, WILLIAM E. MINOR. 

